“A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.” WorldPersonsSelfEyeCertainLoversDelusionHostageSelf Reliant Author:Alexander Theroux
“There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.” WantSelfGrowsHalfImpossibleIdentityTerribleSpeakersBlindnessAccommodateOmissionImplantsHalf Truth Author:Alexander Theroux
“The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.” MenSelfStudyWifeParticularHe ManSourceNeededPleaseHusbandMen And WomenDistanceDelightRageHatedFuelFrustrationObservingDissatisfactionMeasuringFurnacesVindicated Author:Alexander Theroux
“Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.” SelfViewsOpinionEffectsStyleConvictionPoint Of ViewHungBulletsNo PointWashingBeadsCaliberNo Anger Author:Alexander Theroux
